Buck got some decent rolls, but in an interesting twist managed to roll higher (due to my bonus/penalty tweaks) for learning "Common hiltorel military equipment". As a result, he may think he understands mind control, but he doesn't really.

Great! Once the month or so that it takes me to learn this (in-game, of course), could I make some kind of short primer about squid weapons and mind control and send it to the rest of Alpha/Beta? Mainly to showcase my new, vast, knowledge, of course. I'd actually write it up, so you can have a future reference for what my character, uh, 'learned'

Well, we get to keep our PDA on the Nemesis and you can use those to send messages to each other, so I assume so
By then Saoirse should've learned enough about the mind control amps to shake her head at your message

Well, we get to keep our PDA on the Nemesis and you can use those to send messages to each other, so I assume so
By then Saoirse should've learned enough about the mind control amps to shake her head at your message

I just wanted to make it clear that I'm not trying to do this to actually give the knowledge to other characters, mechanically speaking. I mean, the basic gist of what Tal told me would still be in it, but as you can imagine, it wouldn't sound very legitimate (and indeed, a lot of it wouldn't be). Hence why I said I'd actually write the contents up.

Buck got some decent rolls, but in an interesting twist managed to roll higher (due to my bonus/penalty tweaks) for learning "Common hiltorel military equipment". As a result, he may think he understands mind control, but he doesn't really.

Great! Once the month or so that it takes me to learn this (in-game, of course), could I make some kind of short primer about squid weapons and mind control and send it to the rest of Alpha/Beta? Mainly to showcase my new, vast, knowledge, of course. I'd actually write it up, so you can have a future reference for what my character, uh, 'learned'

I thought I replied to this earlier but it turns out I was mistaken. It turns out I forgot to hit "submit"! Basically, yeah, that's a great idea and you seem to already understand you can't transfer non-common knowledge. No issues here!

Did everything but the sword, because I need Tal to weigh in on that -
a) if you get it back
b) if it's a sword or a longsword and
c) if it's actually even a real equivalent to a sword (here thinking of the description saying it had a bunch of buttons on it that Frank didn't know what they did)

It's a regular old sword, but there's a number of buttons on the handle you can't make heads or tails of. It's a pretty wide handle, actually - you wonder if it's more than just a sword.

Done, you have 9000 creds left. (And haven't levelled, but I assume you're still pondering that )
Also, I noted the grown bodyparts on your char sheet for now, but I'm not actually sure that's needed - they're kinda just new "original" legs after all...